The purpose of this paper is to receive a second order expansion of the t-statistic in AR(1) model in local to unity asymptotic approach. I show that Hansen's (1998) method for confidence set construction achieves a second order improvement in local to unity asymptotic approach compared with...

Empirical researchers frequently rely on normal approximations in order to summarize and communicate uncertainty about their findings to their scientific audience. When such approximations are unreliable, they can lead the audience to make misguided decisions. We propose to measure the failure...